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Isabella Beeton was a pioneer, writes Gary Day, but she had little domestic bliss in her own life
Isabella Beeton was a pioneer, writes Gary Day, but she had little domestic bliss in her own life
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"It's a designated bus." That was the forceful response of Roger Placement, our Deputy Director of Logo Development, to the accusation that he had been guilty of "nominal misrepresentation".The row...
Fashion is a highly trained craft, not a celebrity trend, says Sally Feldman
A Stockholm scholar visits London to decry the threat to science posed by England's libel laws. Zoë Corbyn reports
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Administrators may lack a career structure, but they are essential to universities and do not deserve to be disparaged
If India's economic policy is reflected in its annual budget, what does Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee's budget tell us about the government's approach to education for 2010-11? Nothing big, the...
A historian who transformed the study of the English rural poor, although he did not attend university until his mid-thirties, has died.Robert Lee was born on 30 October 1959 and educated at Thorpe...
I was surprised to read the piece by Geoff Lucas denouncing research showing that all other things being equal, state-school students obtain better degrees than independent-school pupils ("Uneven...
Contrary to Geoff Lucas, I am delighted that Steve Smith, president of Universities UK, is using his position and influence to highlight the issue of fair admissions to university. The snippets of "...
A representative of independent schools lecturing us on the "unfairness" of university admissions? Oh, the irony. Presumably an admissions policy based on parental wealth would be fine?Janet Hobbs,...
All (intellectual) property is thievable. The case Times Higher Education reported last week emphasises failure at a number of levels ("What's yours is ours ... but not all agree", 18 March). When...
I was surprised to see that "What's yours is ours ..." focused on the extent to which institutional regulations justified Remco Polman's actions, but ignored the issue of his professional...
As members of academic staff at the University of Brighton, many of us with close links to the University of Sussex, we are writing to express our deep disappointment at Sussex management's response...